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   Dr. Victoria Grinberg (vicgrinberg@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Nov-2023 06:46:50 JST Dr. Victoria Grinberg

   Hm, is it possible to search for a link (eg whether someone linked to an article) on #mastodon?

   I just tried searching for a link I myself posted and it did not work. I can find the post searching for words it used otherwise, so it's definitely ingested into the search. So I am wondering whether I am missing some important bit of search syntax.

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     Andreas (epd5qrxx@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Nov-2023 06:46:49 JST Andreas

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     @vicgrinberg

     Can you help @feditips ?

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     FediTips has moved! (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Nov-2023 06:46:49 JST FediTips has moved!

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     @ePD5qRxX @vicgrinberg

     There's no special operator for links, just search for the actual text in the link.

     For example if you search for t.co you will get lots of posts with links to Twitter.

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     Dr. Victoria Grinberg (vicgrinberg@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Nov-2023 06:59:15 JST Dr. Victoria Grinberg

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     @feditips @ePD5qRxX thanks! That's a pity and makes the search really unuseful for following scientific discussions of articles and press releases 😢

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     @vicgrinberg @ePD5qRxX

     Bear in mind, the full text search option was only just brought in on the latest update, and even then only as an opt-in system. It could be they will tweak it later.

     For context, on Twitter trolls misused the search system to find victims, Mastodon deliberately restricted how search would work (originally all searches were by hashtag).

     If you're comfortable using github, you can vote for URLs to be searchable by giving thumbs up at:

     https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/27692